Avocado Greek Salad with a Greek Salad Dressing is a family favourite side salad served with anything!
A twist on the traditional Greek Salad! Loaded up with creamy avocado and a touch of lettuce along with green peppers (or capsicum), tomatoes, cucumbers, feta, olives, and onion. The best side salad for any meal!
Greek Salad
In this house, however, we always add avocado. Avocado – on – everything – addiction. And why not?! It’s such a great addition, you’ll be doing it too! This salad has been happening daily WITH EVERYTHING Greek-flavoured. Greek lamb chops? Done. Greek chicken? YES! That’s not all though…Avocado Greek salad goes with anything!
How To Make Greek Salad
With all this Greek Salad making and eating, I have to say what makes a good Greek salad even better is a dressing so full of flavour you could drizzle it all over your meat like we do (and like I did here with this Greek Lemon Garlic Chicken Salad). It only takes a few ingredients that I bet you already have in your kitchen. Throw out your bottled dressings. Once you realise how easy and fast it is to make your own, you’ll be giving the bottled stuff the flick.
What goes in a Greek Salad Dressing!
- Red wine vinegar — substitute with lemon juice (FRESHLY SQUEEZED!)
- Garlic.
- Dried oregano — in the seasonings section of your supermarket.
Want to bulk up your salad? Add lettuce like we have here (I love Romaine or Cos).
Looking for more Greek recipes? Try these:
Greek Chicken + Potatoes (One Pan)
Greek Lemon Garlic Chicken Salad
Crispy Greek Lemon Smashed Potatoes
Greek Salad
Ingredients
For The Dressing:
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon garlic minced, or 1 large garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano plus extra to serve
- ¼ teaspoon salt
For The Salad:
- 1 cucumber large, halved lengthways and sliced
- 4 vine ripened tomatoes cut into wedges
- 1 green pepper deseeded and sliced
- ½ red onion sliced thinly
- 7 oz creamy feta cheese good quality, cubed
- ½ cup pitted Kalamata olives
- 1 avocado large, diced
Instructions
- Whisk together dressing ingredients in jug or jar.
- Mix together all of the salad ingredients in a large bowl. Toss with dressing. Season with extra salt ONLY IF NEEDED (depending how salty your feta cheese is). To serve, sprinkle over extra oregano (optional). Serve with chicken, fish, lamb, beef, the options are endless!
Cindy says
Love it!!
Jennifer says
If you need this to last more than a day, I say skip the avocado. Mine became a kind of cream and emulsified into the dressing by the next day. I think I will just add to individual servings in future. Overall, excellent salad!
Jennifer says
This is an absolutely fantastic recipe and will go down in history as one of my 5 go to salad recipes. Amazingly enough, I didn’t even have to “fix” this one, either…it was perfect right out of the gate. Thank you so much!
Ken says
I must be missing something? Can’t see the actual recipe?
Karina says
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ayesha says
Delicious!!
Amy says
This looks fantastic! My family makes a salad that is cucumber, tomato, feta and avocado. I can’t wait to try your version- we love olives!
Karina says
ME too!! I love olives! I hope you enjoy this salad! Your salad sounds great too! I am always loving a good homemade salad and salad dressing! Thanks so much for sharing and following along with me!
Renee says
I made the Greek salad with the Greek marinated lamb chops. Both were a big hit and will go in my permanent recipe rotation. Thanks!
Karina says
YAY!! That is exciting! I am glad it is a keeper! Thanks so much for sharing!
Leah says
This looks awesome and easy to make, I can’t wait to try.
Have you ever soaked red onion in cool water a few minutes to take the bite out? It is great, it really helps on the strong ones.
cook says
as an origin Greek I have to say this is a perfect alternative greek salad-we tried it today and we had really enjoyed it!
Brittany says
Do you recommend eating this salad cold or room temperature?